Garment-hanger.



G. WORDINGHAM; GARMENT HANGER.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 19. I936- Patented June 12, 1917.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June is, raw.

Application filed July 19, 1916. Serial No. 110,107.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Gnonon WoRDINo- HAM, a citizen of the United States,residing at Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State ofWisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inGarment-Hangers, of which the following is a specification.

, This invention relates to garment hangers and has as one of itsobjects to provide a hanger which may bemanufactured at an exceptionallylow cost and with the utilization of a minimum amount of material andwhich may therefore be employed as an advertising medium for 'clothiersand other merchants. h

A-nother aim of the invention is to provide a garment hanger in whichthe shoulder member is formed from a strip of thin wood or othersuitable fibrous material bent to. the required shape, thereby enablingthe hanger being manufactured, as stated above, at a low cost and at thesame time rendering the hanger light in weight.

The invention further aims to provide the hanger with a. novel form oftrousers bar and to mount this bar within the shoulder member in a novelmanner providing for ready assemblage of the parts and yet a strong anddurable connection between them. Incidentally the invention aims toprovide a garment hanger with a .trousers bar which will be of such formas to present to view, in the ordinary use of the hanger, an advertisingspace of maximum area.

In the accompanying drawings,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the hanger embodying the presentinvention; I

Fig. 2 is a detail vertical longitudinal sectional view through one endof the hanger, the trousers bar being shown in ele-' vatlon;

Fig. 3 is a perspective view in detail of one end of the trousersbar;

Fig. 4: is a detail vertical sectional view through the intermediateportion of theshoulder member illustrating the manner of connectingthereto the suspension hook of the hanger.

In the drawings, the shoulder member is indicated in general by thenumeral 1 and this member is formed from a strip of thin wood or otherfibrous material suitable for the purpose bent to the required shape,the

member including the usual supporting arms 2 which extend downwardly inopposite diwhich the shoulder porbe hung are to be draped.

recticns and over tions of the coat to The strip from which the shouldermember is formed is, as stated, relatively thin and is flat sided, andbent to the required shape, its flat faces or sides being presentedrespectively upwardly and downwardly. In order to provide sers bar, theterminal portions of the arms2 for support of the tron-- of the shouldermember are bent to extend vertically downwardly, numeral 3, and each ofportions is formed with is preferably circular.

The trousers bar is indicated in general by as indicated by the thesesaid terminal an opening l which the numeral 5 and is in the nature of astrip with the said shoulder member will lie flush with the outersurfaces of the said terminal portions, as clearly shown in Figs. 1 and2 of the drawings. By reference to the said figures and also Fig. 3 inwhich one end of the shoulder member is illustrated in dotted lines, itwill be observed that the trousers bar 5 is disposed .to lie in avertical plane. Inasmuch as the upper edge of the trousers bar istransversely rounded, the trousers may be more readily adjusted thereonand will not be liable to have sharp creases formed therein. In. orderto secure the tenons'7 against withdrawal from the openings 4:, brads 8are driven through the lower edges of the terminal portions 3 into thesaid terminal portions and said tenons, as-shown in Fig. 2 of thedrawings. At this point it will be understood that the faces or sides ofthe trousers'bar 5 present surfaces of maximum area which may havedirectly printed up desired advertisement or a str1p of paper or othermaterial bearing an advertisement may be applied to either or both ofsaid faces.

The suspension hook for the hanger has its bill portion indicated by thenumeral 9 vertically through the on them any and its shank by thenumeral 10 and this hook is formed from a suitable length of wire whichis provided at the end of the shank l with a head 11 which, when thesaid shank isfitted through an opening 12 formed in the intermediateportion of the shoulder member, will rest against the underside of thesaid member at the said portion thereof. In order to prevent downwardmovementof the shank through the opening 12, the shank immediatelyabovelthe upper surface of the said member 1 is laterally compressed toform a head 13 of a width greater than the diameter of the opening 12.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

1. In a garment hanger, a shoulder member having terminal portionsextending in a downward direction, a suspension means con nected withthe saidmember, a trousers bar extending between the said termihalportions, the said terminal portions being provided each with an openingpassing solely from face to face of said portion and the trousers barbeing provided at its ends with tenons fitting the said openings, thesaid trousers bar being fiat sided and disposed vertically, and securingelements driven into the said terminal portions of the shoulder I memberthrough the lower edges thereof and for the shoulder member, a trousersbar ex tending between the said terminal POIUOIIS of the shouldermember, the said bar being reduced at each end to form a tenon, and avertically disposed shoulder at the inner end of the tenon, the saidtenons being fitted in the openings in the terminal portions of theshoulder member and the said shoulders of the trousers bar contactingthe inner faces of the said terminal portions of the shoulder member,and securing elements driven upwardly through the lower ends of theterminal portions across the openings therein and through the saidtenons, the trousers bar being fiat sided and substantially verticallydisposed.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

GEORGE WORDINGHAM. [Ls]

